Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: soc: smem: Make indirection optional

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>]

On Tue 28 Sep 12:34 CDT 2021, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 5:22 AM Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 09:45:44PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > In the olden days the Qualcomm shared memory (SMEM) region consisted of
> > > multiple chunks of memory, so SMEM was described as a standalone node
> > > with references to its various memory regions.
> > >
> > > But practically all modern Qualcomm platforms has a single reserved memory
> > > region used for SMEM. So rather than having to use two nodes to describe
> > > the one SMEM region, update the binding to allow the reserved-memory
> > > region alone to describe SMEM.
> > >
> > > The olden format is preserved as valid, as this is widely used already.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  .../bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,smem.yaml          | 34 ++++++++++++++++---
> > >  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,smem.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,smem.yaml
> > > index f7e17713b3d8..4149cf2b66be 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,smem.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,smem.yaml
> > > [...]
> > > @@ -43,6 +55,20 @@ examples:
> > >          #size-cells = <1>;
> > >          ranges;
> > >
> > > +        smem@fa00000 {
> >
> > I think this is a good opportunity to make a decision which node name
> > should be used here. :)
> 
> reserved-memory node names are kind of a mess, so I haven't tried for
> any standard... It needs to be solved globally.
> 

I'd be happy to paint the shed any color you decide :)

That said, the binding itself doesn't mandate any node name, so it's
just the example here that would be "wrong" - and just as wrong as it
currently is.

> >
> > You use smem@ here but mentioned before that you think using the generic
> > memory@ would be better [1]. And you use memory@ in PATCH 3/3:
> >
> > -               smem_mem: memory@86000000 {
> > +               memory@86000000 {
> > +                       compatible = "qcom,smem";
> >                         reg = <0x0 0x86000000 0 0x200000>;
> >                         no-map;
> > +                       hwlocks = <&tcsr_mutex 3>;
> >                 };
> >
> > However, if you would use memory@ as example in this DT schema,
> > Rob's bot would complain with the same error that I mentioned earlier [2]:
> >
> > soc/qcom/qcom,smem.example.dt.yaml: memory@fa00000: 'device_type' is a required property
> >         From schema: dtschema/schemas/memory.yaml
> >
> > We should either fix the error when using memory@ or start using some
> > different node name (Stephen Boyd suggested shared-memory@ for example).
> > Otherwise we'll just keep introducing more and more dtbs_check errors
> > for the Qualcomm device trees.
> 
> A different node name. A node name should only have 1 meaning and
> 'memory' is already defined.
> 
> The main issue here is what to name nodes with only a size and no address.
> 

This particular node has both address and size (as does all of the other
reserved-memory regions we use upstream today)...

Regards,
Bjorn